Sewer Line Repair
Once waste is coming back up inside the house, the lateral is not draining and every gallon that goes down a drain has to surface somewhere, so stop using water and call.
When this becomes an emergency
- Sewage rising in a tub or a floor drain when a toilet is flushed.
- A strip of grass over the line that's greener and taller than the rest of the yard.
- A sewer smell in the yard on a still, humid evening.
- Ground that has settled into a shallow trench line running toward the street.
What a pro does
A camera goes down the lateral before a shovel goes into the yard. That run tells the plumber whether the line is fouled with roots, offset at a joint, bellied in a low spot, or broken outright, and each of those points to a different fix. Georgia soil argues with buried pipe in two distinct ways. Red clay through the middle of the state swells wet and shrinks dry, and that seasonal movement works rigid joints out of line a fraction at a time until roots find the gap. Down on the coastal plain the soil is sand, which doesn't move a joint so much as wash into it and then bed out from under the pipe, leaving a sag the line was never graded for. Pine and pecan roots take advantage of either one. Depending on what the camera shows, the repair may be a lining or a pipe burst that leaves most of the yard alone, or an open cut where a section has collapsed and there's nothing left to line.
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